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Long way to go to meet $4.70

The Global Dairy Trade will still have “to travel a lot of distance” to sustain Fonterra’s current farmgate milk price of $4.70/kgMS, Fonterra’s chairman John Wilson says.

Lower prices the main problem

Feds local meat and fibre chair, Miles Anderson.

The South Island drought has already hit most drystock farmers hard in the pocket and the concern over winter feed is mounting.

Are they taking the p#ss?

Bert Quin, Geoff Bates, and Peter Bishop show off their device.

A new device which combines robotics, mechanics and chemistry is set to hit the market to combat one of the biggest problems on dairy farms – nitrogen leaching from cow urine patches.

Farming within limits, complex

Farmers in New Zealand are starting to ‘cotton on’ to the concept of farming within environmental limits.

It’s official: drought!

Opuha Dam chief executive Tony McCormack (left) with Nathan Guy.

Official declaration that the South Island’s drought is a medium-scale adverse event has been widely welcomed by farmers and their representatives.

Cereal yields okay, so far

Despite the dry, harvests have been good around the country.

The South Island drought doesn’t seem to have had too much impact on crop yields to date, particularly where irrigation’s been available.

IRD – we’re here to help!

Now that drought has been declared by the Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy, Inland Revenue says it will exercise discretion towards affected farmers.

Fonterra wants to ‘mix it’

The mission of mymilk is to “mix it up” with competitors rather than lose that milk, says Fonterra’s chairman John Wilson.

The director of Massey University’s Fertiliser and Lime Research Centre (FLRC), Professor Mike Hedley says while intensive farming puts pressure on New Zealand soils he believes they are presently capable of handling that pressure.

More China dairy concerns?

The Ministry for Primary Industries denies holding ‘special’ meetings with New Zealand dairy product makers in the light of claims that China has rejected 60 batches of our dairy products in the past year.